Back in January, Yoni Applebaum at The Atlantic wrote Impeach Donald Trump: “Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.” After the release of today’s redacted Mueller Report, Yoni Applebaum follows up with The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral: The … Read more
President Donald Trump has found a replacement for his bumbling idiot TV lawyer, Rudy Giuliani aka Bat Boy. This morning I watched the shameful performance of the Attorney General of the United States engage in a press conference PR propaganda stunt as Donald Trump’s defense attorney — Baghdad Bill Barr for the defense! Slate’s legal … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has released Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of the Mueller Report. Link to DOJ full report (it is too large a file to embed here). The Atlantic has posted Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia Report. These summaries are also too large to recount all of the minutia … Read more
While we are awaiting the release of Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of the Mueller Report later today, I strongly recommend this op-ed from presidential historian and co-author of “Impeachment: An American History,” Jeffrey Engel, in the Washington Post for proper context. Impeachment should be a no-brainer, no matter what the Mueller report says: The … Read more
In advance of “Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of the Mueller Report” (the only accurate way for the media to refer to it after they earlier mislead the public by falsely referring to Barr’s four-page summary letter as the Mueller Report) being released on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton said during a hearing … Read more